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ArticleScientific reports2021

Transcriptional regulation of dosage compensation in Carica papaya.

Juan Liu, Jennifer Han, Anupma Sharma, Ching Man Wai, Ray Ming, Qingyi Yu

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Recreating viable YYNature communications · 2026
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  5. Dosage compensation evolution in plants: theories, controversies and mechanisms.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Juan LiuCenter for Genomics and Biotechnology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China.
Jennifer HanDepartment of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Anupma SharmaTexas A&M AgriLife Research Center at Dallas, Texas A&M University System, Dallas, TX, USA.
Ching Man WaiDepartment of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Ray MingDepartment of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Qingyi YuTexas A&M AgriLife Research Center at Dallas, Texas A&M University System, Dallas, TX, USA. qyu@ag.tamu.edu.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · USTexas A&M University System · USTexas A&M University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sex chromosome evolution results in the disparity in gene content between heterogametic sex chromosomes and creates the need for dosage compensation to counteract the effects of gene dose imbalance of sex chromosomes in males and females. It is not known at which stage of sex chromosome evolution dosage compensation would evolve. We used global gene expression profiling in male and female papayas to assess gene expression patterns of sex-linked genes on the papaya sex chromosomes. By analyzing expression ratios of sex-linked genes to autosomal genes and sex-linked genes in males relative to females, our results showed that dosage compensation was regulated on a gene-by-gene level rather than whole sex-linked region in papaya. Seven genes on the papaya X chromosome exhibited dosage compensation. We further compared gene expression ratios in the two evolutionary strata. Y alleles in the older evolutionary stratum showed reduced expression compared to X alleles, while Y alleles in the younger evolutionary stratum showed elevated expression compared to X alleles. Reduced expression of Y alleles in the older evolutionary stratum might be caused by accumulation of deleterious mutations in regulatory regions or transposable element-mediated methylation spreading. Most X-hemizygous genes exhibited either no or very low expression, suggesting that gene silencing might play a role in maintaining transcriptional balance between females and males.

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Dosage Compensation, GeneticGene Expression Regulation, PlantTranscription, GeneticAllelesCaricaChromosomes, PlantFlowersGenes, PlantPlant LeavesRecombination, GeneticRNA, MessengerRNA, Messenger

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PMID33712672
PMCPMC7971000
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